I created two clonezilla USB sticks using Windows 7 and then again using LINUX. Both went smoothly exactly as described in the video and in checking the USB sticks there were no errors and a physical examination indicates that all the files appear to be there. I am using a EFI Motherboard from Gigabyte for an Intel 5 processor. BIOS Date 07/22/2013 Vendor American Megatrends Inc. (American Megatrends, www.ami.com) Version V10.0 Board Name Z87-G55 (MS-7821) Vendor MSI Version 2.0 But it won't boot. It tries to, gives up, and then starts LINUX Mint or it just throws an error about there not being a system. Any ideas of what I should check? I tried all the normal things like switching back and forth from EFI to Legacy plus EFI boot and making the USB the primary boot disk manually. The beast is about 6 years old or more. Its never had anything other than Mint on it. Could it be too old? The BIOS is one of the original EFI versions (i.e, buggy and hard to manage) and I have never updated it. PS I built this computer myself and the Linux system is mounted on a 500 gig Samsung SSD and has 24 gigs of memory. On 6/4/19 12:20 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
You bet Satsangat. I used a Gparted disk to find the definition of the drives and then the command line in the included terminal emulator after checking, rechecking and then checking again that I had the correct drive designations. I think the cloning took less that an hour and no data loss or other glitch. Just a new, larger SSD with all, everything. If someone wants to walk a through it that would be a good thin. I think Jason helped me as well as Eric but that was so long ago I don't know, besides you, who can walk a through it. It scared me aft first also but it turns out to be a simple process and I will do it again should my 1 TB SSD ever need to have more capacity. I can't imagine that but then I also thought that my Apple G3 desktop with 4GB drive was enormous! It wasn't
Brian
On 6/4/19 9:39 AM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
This is great info, Brian.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:08 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
Hi All,
I've mentioned before but dd makes this a simple and fool-proof method of cloning the old drive to the new one. It takes an enclosure for the new drive w/ usb connection and that's it. After checking the drive names to get the correct info into the command line it is simply running something along the following (in case your drives show up differently but this is what I did upon fellow NMGLUGgers. Special thanks to Eric almost 10 years ago!!):
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror
...will copy everything from hard drive sda to sdb (i.e. all partitions, swap and all data), a true clone. No need to create partitions or format them on the target hard drive as the dd command will create them because it is copy of every single block of sda.
Now if you where copying a single partition to a new drive yes you would have to create the target partition on the new hard drive.
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror
In the command above this would clone partition 1 on drive sda to partition 1 on drive sdb. In this case you would not need to format the new target partition either as it is again copying every block of partition 1 of the source sda1 to the target sdb1.
Hope this helps.
- Eric
On 6/3/19 6:47 PM, a wrote:
Hi Jason
Thanks for the good thought, i do not know who that person, to meet early, could be?. If you will be around Thursday lunch get things rolling, under 300Gb. or wait till later in the week, see how things "shake out", another meeting is okay, the ssd has arrived I have a usb adapter,
Best a
On 5/30/19 9:02 PM, jason schaefer wrote:
Hi a
I highly recommend coming to a meeting to get this done in person. For something like this its good to get confirmation that someone is willing and able to help you at the meeting. It would also be good to meet this person early to allow time for such a migration. I might be able to be this person next week but my days are so crazy its hard to say what time I would be able to get to the meeting.
Jason
On 5/30/19 5:42 PM, a wrote:
Hi
I have ordered a 500G ssd to install my laptop, with my limited knowledge and support devices.(i no need a live disc) My tentative plan follow the Https below transfer to external HDD then reverse the process to the ssd?
IN 1.)
( SUDO LINE BELOW FROM; https://www.ostechnix.com/backup-entire-linux-system-using-rsync/) USING THERE SITE EXAMPLE FOLLOWING:
$ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /mnt
Q.) IS MY DESTINATION CORRECTLY CONFIGURED?. SUBSTITUTING /MNT LAST PART PREVIOUS LINE FOR: /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD TO GET THE COMPOSITE LINE BELOW:
$ sudo rsync -aAXv / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /home/a//media/a/6fbdc743-fc0f-46e4-aea3-8160914c34ec/backup_HDD
BEST.a
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